I've had some times where the camera lens information came in screwed up. It seems like it swapped some values or something. I don't recall it being too big of an issue to correct if you can open the maya scene and cross reference the camera lens and filmback parameters over to the AE camera settings. I've found with AE, Maya, and Softimage, you can use the same camera values and it lines up. For instance, if the lens in Maya is 20mm with a certain film size, I can match that number in AE and find success. 

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Louai Abu-Osba <me@louai.org> wrote:

Thank you all very much! That's immensely useful to know.

-louai

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com> wrote:
> Don't use non-square pixels. That's one thing I've had trip up the conversion (years ago when I used to attempt it).
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>  - Chris
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> On Sep 18, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Louai Abu-Osba wrote:
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>> hey all,
>>
>> I'm working on a shot where I'll need to integrate a maya camera and
>> locators into my AE comp and am wondering if you can offer any
>> pointers or gotchas I should look out for. I've heard from some people
>> that were never able to get the resulting AE camera to match the Maya
>> camera perfectly and locators didn't translate correctly either. What
>> I'd like to do is import the maya camera and several locators that
>> will be parented to several characters finger tips. Any insight that's
>> not in the official documentation is appreciated. Thanks!
>>
>> -louai
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